Unique Approach

Treating pain that no one else can fix

When your life is affected by a musculoskeletal issue, the problem doesn’t stay centered around the painful area. Your body may suffer from strains and pains that cause joint pain, debilitating headaches or simple exhaustion after a long day of work. At PhysioActive Orthopaedic & Sports Injury Centre, our goal is to improve your quality of life by treating all your aches and pains with long term solutions.

Why is the physioactive approach different?

Physioactive uses the most up-to-date scientific literature to guide our treatment. Evidenced based therapy has found that a “multi-modal approach” (using hands-on therapy in conjunction with exercise and modalities) to therapy has been shown to be the most effective approach. Our therapists have an advance knowledge of the body’s healing system and more specifically achieve great long term results with even the most difficult cases and where others have failed. We use a unique and scientific approach to therapy. We determine the most significant physical impediments standing in the way of your recovery.

Our manual therapists use soft touch and hands on therapy to improve the mobility of your joints, fascia, muscles, and nerves. We combine exercises to integrate these changes. If applicable our therapists may include treatment modalities such as magnetic biostimulation, laser, ultrasound, acupuncture, and IMS (PLEASE LINK TO THOSE PAGES AS WELL).

Neuropathic pain is frequently We then assess the degree of neuropathy and the major causes of the neuropathy and successfully treat accordingly.

When ready a series of neural exercises are performed and when ready at scientifically measured and monitored exercise protocol tailored to you is begun. You must be committed to see the results.

First gear: fat burning. The body is able to run for long periods of time by burning fat. This primarily builds the mitochondria, Expands the capillary beds allowing more blood to get to the muscle. This is achieved at 60 to 65% of maximum heart rate and should be the starting point for most.

This is the zone where steady, low-grade C -10 drives the slow, consistent growth of infrastructure: blood vessels and mitochondria and your muscles; repair and health throughout your body. You become more fit with her exercise, but you gain more endurance and general healthiness with prolonged light exercise.
The real benefits of exercise come with months and years of sustained, steady growth.

Second gear: Begins when you pass 65% (Ideally 70-85% ) not great for mileage but great for speed and power. You keep burning a low level of fat in the background but the extra fuel comes from the glucose. when you reach 80% of maximum heart rate glucose burning kicks in. This also kicks in your brain, mental function, excitement and challenge.
If you’re burning glucose, you must be in a primal historic “hunting”, which triggers a major metabolic shift that affects your muscles, brain, gut, immune system, kidneys, liver, heart and lungs. Adrenaline surges, C6 searches, nonessentials shutdown and blood is delivered to active muscles. You become engaged and alert.

Third-gear: anaerobic exercise. Generally not that useful to train especially for the elderly and those in pain.

Starting exercise:

Your joints are the weakest link so watch out. You must start in first gear with a supervised, low impact aerobic component to secrete C 10 and begin the building and repair of your joint cartilage and engage the neuromuscular system.

At physioactive we use 210 or 220 – your age depending on the physical signs you exhibit. Our specially trained exercise specialist will use other tools to estimate your max heart rate such as ………..MO.

Once in shape you can calculate your real max HR. That only comes after months or years of daily training. The pace you can maintain for only 60 seconds or so, going flat out. Don’t get to your actual maximum.

Long-term goal:

5 to 10 minutes warm-up at 60 to 65% max then 10-20 minutes at 70-85%. goal: an hour at 70 to 85%

Strength training is primarily about your muscles ability to deliver power, which, surprisingly, as much to do with a special form of neural coordination than actual strength. Strength training causes muscle growth, and that’s important, but it’s the hidden increasing coordination that changes your physical well-being. It’s the coordination of fine muscle detail for the elaborate networks of nerves that link your brain and body. Depending on you level, lower forms of neural connecting may be necessary before beginning any exercise program. Your experience physioactive therapist will be able to assess and determine your individual starting point. Often those in chronic pain fail because the exercise programs are not tailored to the individual and the program is too hard causing neural fatigue or joint injury.

We aren’t always aware of nerve decay as we get older, and after injury, but it’s the main reason our joints wear out, our muscles get sloppy and our ability to physically be alert and powerful begins to fade this is reversible with our program of manual therapy, neural exercises, aerobic and strength training.

This same nerve decay, neuropathy, is the reason for neuropathic pain.

Why we include resistance training:

The casual motion of daily life is not enough to turn on the all of the millions of neural networks and your body. Your body grows and your brain learns the tiniest amount of each movement but because C-6 is in the background helping you degrade just a little bit each day. The casual motion of daily life is not enough to turn on the cytokines of growth. This slowed degradation of brain connections and the controlling spinal reflex arcs get slow after years of sedentary existence. It takes a critical amount of effort to cross the threshold to the secrete enough C- 6 to trigger the production of C 10.

How do we scientifically measure your improvement:

Borg – same initial test (i.e. bike level and rpm or treadmill

What types of conditions does this unique approach help?

Tendonitis or more accurately described as tendonosis

chronic pain

fibromyalgia

cardiac rehab (the same messengers that begin healing our joints and nerves also heal our arteries)

arthritis

headaches

concussions

chronic neck and back pain

shoulder and shoulder blade pain

poor sleep

hormone imbalances

This is not for acute injuries. All of our therapists have great success with acute and sports injuries and pride themselves on allowing the body to fully rehabilitate and fully regenerate so that the healed tissues are as good or better than the original. This is the physioactive difference. Any treatment (the passage of time) will make your symptoms reduce and will begin to feel better, but the PHysioactive difference is the ability to maximize regeneration and thus return to peak performance and prevent further injury.

Why Choose PhysioActive?

Many patients are frustrated with the advice and treatments they’ve been given, and feel that they have nowhere to turn. We recognize the importance of personal interaction, and your questions are always answered by a physiotherapist. We provide you with quick access to the most knowledgeable professionals that can help you improve your quality of life.

From massage therapy in the clinic to helpful tips on how to decrease your pain at home, the professionals at PhysioActive offer you valuable solutions to a problem that affects all areas of your life.

Call Us Today

Call us today at 905-695-0371 to set up an appointment to speak with a trained professional that knows how to treat the causes of your lower back pain rather than just masking the symptoms for a few hours. We want to see you living in the body that allows you to achieve all your dreams.